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Learning Styles Again: VARKing up the right tree! Neil Fleming, Educational Developer and David Baume, FSEDA, Higher Education Consultant Fleming, N., and Baume, D. (2006) Learning Styles Again: VARKing up the right tree!, Educational Developments , SEDA Ltd, Issue , Nov. 2006, p4-7. Introduction This article was developed in conversations (face to face and via email) between David Baume PhD FSEDA, higher Education Consultant, and Neil Fleming, the designer of the vark questionnaire and helpsheets. Understanding how we learn Students and teachers need a starting place for thinking about, and understanding, how they learn. Self-knowledge is a good start. How to get that self-knowledge? Inventories can be useful. Initially, it doesn't much matter which inventory we use. Why not? Because a learning style is not a set of scores on some inventory, or a set of alphabetic symbols, or paragraphs of descriptors with labels. A learning style is, rather, a description of a process, or of preferences.

questionnaire. For others, doing the VARK questionnaire again and again over time is a worthwhile exercise, even though - maybe because - the scores may vary. VARK works when people find it useful. The origins of VARK For nine years I was one of Her Majesty's school inspectors in the New Zealand education system. During

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